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Since much of the human body is water, foods must be digested in an aqueous solution. This presents a problem for fats that are not water soluble. To aid fat digestion, the body breaks down fat by first using emulsifiers that help suspend it in a liquid, and then using enzymes that break it down. Once it is broken down, fat can be absorbed and distributed to the various parts of the body.
Normally, digestion starts in the mouth as enzymes in saliva start to break food down. This process is not as effective for fat, which instead is sent down to the stomach largely unchanged. In the stomach, food usually mixes with gastric juices and is transformed intochyme. Again, the watery solution of the stomach is not conducive to breaking down fat, and so true digestion doesn't take place until it reaches the small intestine.
There are two organs in the body that secrete substances essential to fat digestion: the liver and the pancreas. The pancreas secretes lipase, a substance that breaks down food, including fat, and the liver secretes bile, a substance that emulsifies fat. Without bile, the lipase would not be able to digest fat efficiently. When food enters the small intestine, lipase is secreted into the area via the main pancreatic duct through the hepatopancreatic ampulla. It then breaks down food into simpler particles.
What else can I help you with?
Which nutrients help digest food?
fat
What nutrients dies bile help digest?
fats or lipids fats or lipids
If you take a spoonful of honey before you go to bed will it digest your fat?
No amount of honey will digest fat. Enzymes produced by the body digest fat
What do enzymes digest fat into?
Fatty acids and glycerol
The pancreas secretes which substance to help the small intestine digest food?
carbohydrates, protein, and fat in the chyme.
Which organs help digest fats?
The liver secretes bile which helps in fat absorption.
What organs secrete substances into the small intestine and what do they secrete?
well the villi are on the walls of the small intestine and they secrete pancreatic juice, made from the pancreas.
What contains enzymes to digest bacteria and other foreign substances?
you dont digest bacteria
What organs chemically digest fats?
all organs that chemically digest fat
The and the liver send fluids to the small intestine that helps in digestion?
The pancreas, liver, and gallbladder all secrete substances which help digest food in the small intestine. These liquids can digest fats, carbohydrates and proteins.
What Emulsification agent helps to digest fat?
bile is the emulsification agent that helps to digest fats.
What Digest food wastes foreign substances?
lysosome
